/Sounds like 'chah-bah-KAH-noh'/
Tacky, cheap-looking, and lacking in taste or craftsmanship — the aesthetic equivalent of plastic gold spray-painted on cardboard. In Mexico, chabacano describes anything done without care, class, or quality: decoration that's loud and cheap, humor that's crude, or manners that are unrefined.
"El local estaba decorado muy chabacano. → "The venue was decorated in really bad taste."
"Ese chiste fue muy chabacano, no tiene gracia. → "That joke was so low-brow — it wasn't funny."
/Sounds like 'chah-bah-KAH-noh'/
Tacky, cheap-looking, and lacking in taste or craftsmanship — the aesthetic equivalent of plastic gold spray-painted on cardboard. In Mexico, chabacano describes anything done without care, class, or quality: decoration that's loud and cheap, humor that's crude, or manners that are unrefined.
"El local estaba decorado muy chabacano. → "The venue was decorated in really bad taste."
"Ese chiste fue muy chabacano, no tiene gracia. → "That joke was so low-brow — it wasn't funny."